Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Saudi Influence in Washington Must End

In FrontPage today I discuss why Saudi influence in Washington must end if we are going to have any hope of defeating the global jihad.

The 28 pages of a Congressional report detailing where the 9/11 hijackers got their financing have been classified for years, but what they contain is an open secret. Former Senator Bob Graham explained: “The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11, and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier.” So why keep this information secret? Because the Saudis wield undue influence in Washington, among both parties – an influence that has deformed our response to the global jihad threat, and continues to do so.

Responding to a bill that would allow 9/11 victims’ families to sue governments linked to terror attacks inside the U.S., the Saudis have acted like neither an ally nor an innocent party: they’ve threatened to sell $750 billion in U.S. asserts, vividly demonstrating why their influence in Washington is so detrimental.

Nonetheless, they still have a friend in Barack Obama, a man who has never hesitated to reach out in friendship to those who threaten the United States. Obama is trying to get Congress to reject the bill, and his solicitude for the Saudis is drawing criticism even from members of his own party. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called on him to release the 28 pages: “If the president is going to meet with the Saudi Arabian leadership and the royal family, they think it would be appropriate that this document be released before the president makes that trip, so that they can talk about whatever issues are in that document.”

The New York Daily News, normally a reliable Democratic Party organ, fumed: “If the President allows himself to get pushed around this way in front of the world, then he earns every bit of the anger being directed at him by the extended family of September 11.”

Of course, all too many Republicans are just as much in the tank for the Saudis as the Democrats. CBS News reported on September 30, 2001, on George W. Bush’s watch, that “two dozen members of Osama bin Laden’s family were urgently evacuated from the United States in the first days following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, according to the Saudi ambassador to Washington.” If Hitler had had twenty-four relatives on U.S. soil on December 8, 1941, would FDR have urgently evacuated them to Berlin?

The FBI under both Bush and Obama has likewise been an apparently willing servant of the Saudis. The Miami Herald reported on July 1, 2014 that “freshly released but heavily censored FBI documents include tantalizing new information about events connected to the Sarasota Saudis who moved suddenly out of their home about two weeks before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving behind clothing, jewelry and cars….This release suggests that the FBI has covered up information that is vitally important to public safety.” These “Sarasota Saudis” were a family that abruptly fled the country shortly before 9/11, “leaving behind three vehicles, food in the refrigerator and toys in the swimming pool.” Mohammed Atta may have visited their home. Yet for years, the FBI insisted that they had nothing to do with the 9/11 jihad plot, and has been extremely reticent about sharing information about their investigation. Whom is the FBI protecting, and why?

Meanwhile, the Saudis have spent untold billions of dollars spreading their Wahhabi ideology, including material such as “Jihad: The Forgotten Obligation,” in areas of the Islamic world where jihad had indeed been forgotten, largely if not completely. The Saudis have, in reawakening Muslims to this obligation, set the world on fire: al-Qaeda was a product of the Wahhabi ideology, and the Islamic State, with its unquenchable desire to commit as many jihad mass murder attacks as possible on American soil, despises the House of Saud and is determined to overthrow it but is nevertheless its demon child. The Saudis remain one of the world’s chief financiers of jihad terror.

This is an ally of the United States? No. The Saudis are not an ally of the U.S. and have not been since 9/11 and before. A presidential candidate who really wants to strike a blow against the global jihad would vow to release the 28 pages and to stand up to the Saudis’ threats, and to break the Saudis’ economic hold on the U.S. by putting the full weight of the U.S. government behind offshore drilling, oil pipelines, fracking, and the development of alternative energy sources.

In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt not only wasn’t making sure that Hitler’s relatives were safely back home; he also wasn’t meeting with the Führer to discuss a German-U.S. alliance. It is long past time that the United States stop behaving like a weak client state of the House of Saud.

Yes, and lets never forget that the thug in chief and his cronies, are all followers of the hard left…. The influence that these SOVIET backed criminals has had on the west is absolutely incredible… Corruption of the educational system at all levels, the media as lap dogs for any leftist foolishness and criminality, attacks on the family and churches…. All the weakness of the west, and all due to adherents of soviet ideology…..

Both are very dangerous, but the ideologies and institutional dynamics that make them tick are dangerous.

Obama seems to have transitioned to sympathizing with Iran.

SPECULATIVE BACKGROUND: Perhaps the Iranian mullahs are unhappy about the importation of Sunnis into Europe and are threatening to disrupt the operation.

Obama – who remains a devote Third Worldist – is trying to keep the operation going by buying off the mullahs through repeated rounds of U.S. “concessions” towards a “deal” that supposedly is desperately needed by the mullahs.

https://www.rt.com/usa/340109-obama-911-report-saudi-arabia/
says “Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell some $750 billion in US assets if the bill [to allow terror victims to sue foreign governments connected to attacks on American soil] passes, fearing it could leave the country vulnerable in US courts.”
So what? How is this a threat? As a general proposition, who would be harmed by someone’s sale of assets at bargain prices? Somebody please explain the economics here.

Hi, jihad3tracker, but I didn’t put up that RT item; I just followed the link in Robert Spencer’s commentary, by clicking on the red-highlighted word “threatened”. I still don’t understand how a sale of assets by a seller who is non-economically motivated (and is willing to get less-than-market prices) can be a threat to anyone.

Agreed with all of you. Such a sale would cause the Saudis a massive loss, but it certainly wouldn’t dent the US’s economic credibility.

Maybe your public and/or powers that are, can tease the Saudis to simply give away the bonds for free. The US will pay them up anyway once due, but SA would have to swallow a 750 billion loss – wishful thinking, I know.

It’s also important to remember that – as others have observed – Obama feels a devout, mystical sense of communing with a romantic 1980’s vision of the “Third World,” “liberation movements” (such as Islamic State).

Actually, if we wanted to, we could control pretty much ANYTHING that the Saudis do or don’t do, including bond purchases. You would be surprised how high they can jump in their desert dresses.

The U.S. is mentally handicapped by decades of dhimmi submissiveness vis-a-vis the duplicitous desert despots.

Also, the Saudis will have bought up an extensive and well-greased network of informers, agents of influence and inactive sleeper agents throughout key government agencies, the media, Congress, etc. However, quite a few of these may turn out to be duds when push comes to shove.

Support for Saudi Arabia can be summed up in one word
“Treason” The murder of 3,000 Americans on 911 was an act of war.
Consequently the FBI, CIA, NSA, the Pentagon are also traitors.
The refusal of the Pentagon to do a mutiny in answer to 911
proves that they have become traitors.

(…Support for Saudi Arabia can be summed up in one word
“Treason” The murder of 3,000 Americans on 911 was an act of war.
Consequently the FBI, CIA, NSA, the Pentagon are also traitors.
The refusal of the Pentagon to do a mutiny in answer to 911
proves that they have become traitors…)

Wow! Finally someone spoke the truth the way it should spoken.
Dear Smart Guy, I was reading the comments in the Jihadwatch for a long time and I have heard someone speak the truth the way you did. May God bless you!

This delusional administration pretends that turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia are allies while they consistently plot and work for Western civilization’s destruction. They are Islamist regimes that, hopefully, the next president will recognize as evil and a real threat to our national security.

What a miserable scourge. Energy independence, however it is achieved, is a fundamental national security issue which is woefully underappreciated; and its being underappreciated is by miscreant design.

How about Bush and other politicians who covered up for SA and invaded Iraq as a distraction and lied to the American people to jusitify the Iraq invasion, while protecting the Saudis from any attack or blame. How much $$$ are they getting in their secret bank accounts to keep this lie a secret from the public while sacrificing thousands of American lives and money post 9/11? Traitors , sell outs ? I believe the total truth will be revealed only when all these scum will be dead and out of reach of justice.

The US could become energy independent or close to it with some work. Pin head politicians with Ipads seem to have forgotten what that is though. No reason to involve the Saudi’s in anything.
The back stabbing, illegitimate, traitor Hussein has seen to it that no one can speak out about it or at least created that perception. Plenty of people here will go to work to secure energy independence…say 10 million maybe? If the positions were available the work force would show up. If the back stabber was truly into so called “legacy” building as the press loves to say it, he would have already done this. Talk about saving the country? That would do it he’d be a hero! BUT NO! The Bolshevik, traitorous, scum licking, communist filth does not want that though. He wants more Gov’t control and to keep his cronies right where they are in the status quo bubble.
He is also working for more ‘integration’ of scum that will never work for a living that we will support. But with what money? Our pensions, savings, 401k’s, IRA’s would be a nice treat for the monster that tries to rule our every move.
The traitor is supposed to protect Americans not sell us out so he must indeed be the enemy. He does it time and time again.
I still don’t understand how many of my fellow Americans don’t see right through the back stabbing, traitorous, scum sucking parasitic flea who should be impeached and publicly flogged then imprisoned.

PRODUCE AND SAVE! “Spend and consume” is a way into the endless vortex of debt. Jobs here in the US= no more dependence and financing of foreign countries that sell our finalized products back to us on credit. Lift Gov’t regulation and bring business back to the US! This is how we can rebuild our military and stop the madness of illegal immigration and illegal immigration by presidential order. It would be WORK but we could do it. And get the socialist ideologies out of the picture which includes the ‘internal raid and supplant (IRS)’ that are run by the fed bank and stop printing money like it is breath mints.
Then bring litigation against Snotty Arabia and quickly. Cut our business ties and any oil dependence then take their money on the world stage and pay reparations to the families of 911. At that point no one would dare lay litigation against us. But the traitor scum would be allowed to work any cases from his prison cell while flies fester in his wounds.

I want those 28 pages released! It will prove to Liberals that our Government that they adore so much, is a Gestapo! And it will prove Saudi is NOT our friend. Hopefully they will make the connection that NO MUSLIM state is our friend and the light will begin to shine into their vacuous heads!

Everybody acting like Obama is the only one at fault for this forgets that EVERY US president has cozied up to the Saudis. Let’s stay rational and call out every US President for their treasonous relationship with the Saudis.

The issue of deficits has become a political football in Washington. The Obama administration knew that the massive stimulus spending signed into law at the beginning of President Obama’s term would produce record deficits. They hoped to use the deficits to force large new tax hikes and promote income redistribution. Many commentators believe that the goal of the administration was to force a value added tax—a type of national sales tax—that would mimic the social democracies of Europe. This alternative, a “VAT,” has been widely discussed in Washington. In effect, it was hoped that the record deficits would create a “debt bomb” that could only be defused by a new and far-reaching tax regime—or, at a minimum, by substantially higher effective tax rates.

If the “debt bomb” explodes, it will ravage the economy not only of the U.S. but of the whole world.

I hope that a copy of this article has been sent direct to Donald Trump.

Indeed, *lots* of copies need to be sent by every poster or lurker here who prefers a President Trump to the prospect of a President Hilary Clinton.

The dhimmi-like/ tributary-like relationship between the USA and, inter alia, the House of Saud, Turkey, Pakistan, and Indonesia needs to STOP. All ‘aid’ to the ‘poor Palestinians’ needs to STOP.

Then the USA would be free to tell Russia to STOP playing footsie with sinister Islamic Iran, without any danger of being accused of hypocrisy.

That which applies at a micro level – NEVER MARRY A MUSLIM! – should also apply at the macro level, the relationships between states and nations.

For far too long assorted infidel entities, for assorted reasons. (not least, internecine quarrels in the Camp of the Infidels) have thought they could ‘do deals’ with this or that mohammedan entity. It was ALWAYS, in the long run, a disaster for the foolish infidel party. They ALWAYS get screwed.

gravenimage wrote: “The main point is that the Saudis are *threatening us*–it will be much worse for us if we cave to these threats. I say we call their bluff.”

If we do, we must be prepared to transition within two years to an economy not dependent on oil and to vehicles that use alternate fuels.

Fortunately, dozens of alternate fuel systems can be developed within two years. I say we bankrupt the corrupt Saudis and all the Arab oil states. They’ve played the West for suckers for decades and exported terrorism at the same time.

They must be put in their normal place…at the bottom of the Third World. Without anyone to buy their oil, they have nothing to offer the world but backwardness, stupidity, inbreeding and absurdity.

gravenimage wrote: “The main point is that the Saudis are *threatening us*–it will be much worse for us if we cave to these threats. I say we call their bluff.”

If we do, we must be prepared to transition within two years to an economy not dependent on oil and to vehicles that use alternate fuels.
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Mortimer, I love to see our increased energy independence, both in better efficiency in extracting our own sources of oil and natural gas and use of alternative sources of energy.

But the fact is that most oil goes into a general international kitty–it is not sold directly to individual nations. Saudi Arabia is not going to be able to cut off the US or other Western markets even if they wanted to, which I doubt they would anyway.

I think they just hope that if they threaten us that we will back off. If we call their bluff I’m quite sure that they will back off.

And if they do not, we will still be better off than bowing to a nation funding our death and destruction.

“The Saudis remain one of the world’s chief financiers of jihad terror.”

Proudly supported by Eastern Canada who continue to buy Saudi and Nigerian blood beheading rape oil and flatly refusing to use Canadian oil. In stead, they use the welfare cheques they get from the rest of Canada. In a roundabout way, by continuing to give Eastern Canada welfare, the rest of Canada is supporting Muslim terror.

I agree, but Saudi cash is buying up land the U.S. small cities at a fast rate… they are threatening massive bond sales (who will buy) if 28 9/11 pages are released, they have a powerful ally who has plenty to hide…the military seems to be under foreign influence.. and it looks grim to me. I hope I am wrong…but unless the politicians get their head out of the quicksand…….the influence will conquer without a peep.

This is purely speculation at this point, but I suspect that some US successes at nabbing Qaida and Taleban badmashes might be because we found some bad dope on members of the House of Saud (and others among our “allies”) and used it to blackmail some useful intelligence out of the Sa’udi and other governments. I’m also curious to know what we might have pried out of the Palestinian Authority, too. While I’m at it, I also believe such people deserved to be blackmailed.

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